What is national identity in the wake of a climate apocalypse? Larissa Sansour on her contribution to the Danish Pavilion in Venice.
Critique and curiosity go hand in hand in Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s queer-feminist shake-up at Kunsthal Aarhus.
This year’s instalment of the alternative art fair Alt_Cph manifested itself as a performance festival offering a queered blast of fresh air on the Copenhagen art scene.
– Planetary thinking is feminist thinking, state the curators behind Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology as they publish a book about hydrofeminism.
Nairy Baghramian’s sculptural work at the National Gallery of Denmark is an eloquent image of institutional porosity in an age where the institutional is something performed.
– I don’t know if I really believe in public art as such, says Dan Graham, who is also not too fond of institutional critique, but loves astrology. His Copenhagen show opens tonight.
– It is important to insist on a non-Eurocentric, post-colonial and queer-feminist position, says Carla Zaccagnini, new professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
– Goethe was wrong in believing that certain colours produce specific emotions, says artist Henriette Heise, who has devised a new theory of colour.
Everything is written in algae dust in Astrid Myntekær’s densely referential installation where myths and science contribute to a meditation on the world’s reduced lung capacity.
‘If I were forced to name an upside of the pandemic, it has been that it gave us time to reflect on and re-evaluate what we do’, says Sara Berner Bengtsson, new Managing Director of the Nordic art fair.
In Lytle Shaw’s New Grounds for Dutch Landscape the materialist turn is transformed into an art historical account of everyday ongoingness and the ground beneath our feet.
Some words around what it meant when Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta abstracted the act of masturbation into a large vibrating dildo wall. Or, why we feel sick making art.
Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen will become joint directors of Art Hub Copenhagen.
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